Good ways to Learn Cocoa? [closed]

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I'd love to learn Cocoa, it seems like the best systems language for Mac OS X.

Can you recommend any useful ways to learn the language? Books, websites, example projects or even classes to take?

Answer 1

I have been working on learning Cocoa myself recently and have found Apple's own Cocoa resources to be incredibly helpful.

For example projects I have spent quite a bit of time in the Adium source. Adium is a relatively large project so I am very often able to find examples of whichever concept I am interested in.

The CocoaDev wiki can also be quite useful.

Answer 2

Best books I encountered are those from Apress, in this case : Beginning iPhone 4 Development. Was much clearer to me than those from O'Reilly

Answer 3

Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X is a great book that covers Objective-C and many of the frameworks that make up Cocoa. Most Cocoa programmers I know learned from this book (including myself). The third edition was released recently, so it's fairly up to date. Good luck.

Answer 4

1. Read and follow the Become an Xcoder tutorial.
2. Read Cocoa Programming for the Mac OS X and type in all the code.
3. You can also watch CocoaCast if you would like to watch how programming is done instead of just reading it.
4. The Cocoa documentation in apple's developer website is also a very good resource. Work your way on the Cocoa and Objective-C conceptual guides and work out the samples.
5. Finally, just practice and apply what you've read/seen on your own application.